ayahuasca – Los Angeles Psychedelic Events

Ayahuasca for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Insights From a Randomized Clinical Trial [ONLINE]

The use of ayahuasca, an indigenous brew from the Amazonian basin with psychedelic properties, has increased worldwide and its therapeutic value has been investigated. Recently, we conducted a randomized placebo-controlled trial with ayahuasca in 35 patients with treatment-resistant depression. The results suggest a significant antidepressant effect of ayahuasca with rapid onset, already one day after … Read moreAyahuasca for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Insights From a Randomized Clinical Trial [ONLINE]

Ayahuasca-Assisted Psychotherapy in America? Why and How? [ONLINE]

Episode 2: Ayahuasca-Assisted Psychotherapy in America? Why and How? SEPTEMBER 29TH, 5:00-6:30PM PST Dr. Dennis Mckenna Ethnopharmacologist Dr. Leanna Standish Co-CEO – Sacred Medicines Dr. Victoria Hale Co-CEO – Sacred Medicines Episode Summary: In this episode we will explore some of the following questions regarding Ayahuasca-assisted therapy to the U.S: Should western scientists and clinicians … Read moreAyahuasca-Assisted Psychotherapy in America? Why and How? [ONLINE]

Ayahuasca Singing, Indigenous Knowledge, and Decolonization [ONLINE]

Featuring Bernd Brabec de Mori in conversation with Bia Labate Wednesday, September 23rd at from 12-1:30pm PST The practice of singing plays an essential role in much of indigenous culture and ceremony. In traditional ayahuasca ceremonies, singing is how the shamans communicate with the spirit of the plants and is intimately related to healing. Traditional … Read moreAyahuasca Singing, Indigenous Knowledge, and Decolonization [ONLINE]

Ayahuasca: Between the Rainforest and the Laboratory [ONLINE]

We’re doing a dry run of next week’s conference through a conversation between anthropologist and author Jeremy Narby and Social Anthropologist David Dupuis, for a discussion about Ayahuasca and its cultural dimensions. Come join for free – and make sure you have reserved your spot for ICPR 2020. Tune in this Monday 21 September to this … Read moreAyahuasca: Between the Rainforest and the Laboratory [ONLINE]

Psychedelic Access with Jesse Gould & Sam Chapman [ONLINE]

Details Please Join PPS in welcoming Jesse Gould, founder and president of Heroic Hearts Project, a nonprofit organization that connects military veterans to ayahuasca retreats and other psychedelic-based treatment options. Jesse will share his own journey as a veteran and how he came to found Heroic Hearts. By any outside metric, it is clear that … Read morePsychedelic Access with Jesse Gould & Sam Chapman [ONLINE]

Why the Music? Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience

Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience About this Event This event will be an exploration of sound and music and how they affect and guide the experience of ayahuasca. It will be part lecture and storytelling, and part experiential. Discussed will be icaros, traditional instruments, and non-traditional instruments that are making their way into … Read moreWhy the Music? Exploring Sound and Music in the Ayahuasca Experience

The Medicine Documentary Screening

The Medicine reveals the hidden mysteries of one of nature’s most powerful and controversial healing remedies: ayahuasca. It is a documentary about Amazonian shamanism, introducing Taita Juanito Guillermo Chindoy Chindoy, both a teacher and student of the sacred plant medicine. As ayahuasca gains popularity in the West, the film explores the science as well as … Read moreThe Medicine Documentary Screening

Psychedelics & Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors: DMT & 5-MeO-DMT

Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) is an important metabolic enzyme involved in the metabolism of several neurotransmitters and tryptamine psychedelics such as DMT and 5-MeO-DMT. While inhibition of this enzyme is critical to making DMT orally active as part of the mechanism of ayahuasca, it can be unsafe and even lethal to combine other drugs or psychedelics … Read morePsychedelics & Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors: DMT & 5-MeO-DMT

Ayahuasca Manifested: Tapping into Visionary State

Ayahuasca, also referred to as the “Visionary Vine” has much to teach us about how we —as the conscious observer — create our own reality. About this Event The Aware Project (www.awareproject.org) hosts a series of monthly Psychedelic Awareness Salon events in Los Angeles and San Diego. We are creating a connected and educated community … Read moreAyahuasca Manifested: Tapping into Visionary State

Becoming a Voice for the Plants

Adam Roa and Azrya Cohen have been in a deep communion with altered states of consciousness for the past seven years. Beginning with forays into psychedelics through the burning man community, both Adam and Azrya continually found deeper insight, purpose and clarity of vision through working with these substances in an intentional way. Five years … Read moreBecoming a Voice for the Plants